Aptos
- Ticker
- APT
- Category
- Smart-contract platform
- Risk profile
- Volatile
What it is
A proof-of-stake layer-1 launched in October 2022 by engineers from Meta's abandoned Diem project, built around the Move programming language and an execution engine that processes independent transactions in parallel rather than one after another.
Why this risk level
- Move is the distinguishing feature rather than the marketing: assets are represented as typed resources that the language itself forbids from being copied or silently discarded, which removes at the language level a category of bug that Solidity contracts have to be audited for
- The pitch is parallel execution — transactions that do not touch the same state are processed simultaneously — so throughput claims should be read as a ceiling under favourable conditions rather than a rate you will observe on a busy day
- The chain launched with a large share of the supply allocated to the core team, early investors and the foundation, released on a multi-year unlock schedule, so circulating supply has risen on a published timetable independently of demand
- It competes directly with several other well-funded Move and parallel-execution chains for the same developers, and an ecosystem's depth — not its benchmark numbers — is what determines whether a chain retains them
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